Crashing on takeoff... how odd

"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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Only a fools and idiots speculate on the cause of an airplane crash
before the facts are known.


Your self-assured tone notwithstanding, I question the veracity, as well
as the usefulness of this statement.

Idiots probably spend very little of their time speculating on the causes
of air crashes, while those who do so all day every day are professional
air accident investigators, who did not get their jobs by being fools.

Speculation is a normal and necessary activity in such situations, in no
way degrading to the memory of the victims, and indispensable to our
undersatnding of the accident process.

Wild or lurid scenari, accusation, diffamation and psychotic, paranoid
conspiracy theories do not qualify, as any reasoning person readily
understands.


He got it backward. Only a fool would speculate on the cause of an airplane
crash AFTER the facts are known.